Today's security market landscape is complex and fragmented. Security offerings have not fully met customer needs for greater protection, integration with existing infrastructure, and control over network infrastructure security. The Microsoft Forefront family of security products for business helps...

This keynote is in two parts: firstly it covers the way in which Forefront Security and System Center management technologies work together to help IT professionals provide secure and reliable IT infrastructure. The second longer session covers the System Center product family in more detail. http...

In this session we look at the key Vista security enhancements that impact our overall look at end-to end security framework. We explore User Account Control and the Secure Desktop. Examine how Vista can virtualize file and registry access and how solutions can be provided for Windows XP. You will learn...

Network connectivity is the life blood of your infrastructure but the TCP/IP stack, listening services and applications provide many entry points through which systems can be discovered and attacked. In this session we show you how to assess your systems through the use of network scanners, provide maximum...

Network connectivity is the life blood of your infrastructure but the TCP/IP stack, listening services and applications provide many entry points through which systems can be discovered and attacked. In this session we show you how to assess your systems through the use of network scanners, provide maximum...

Are you still using DES, RSA, MD5 or SHA-1? Do you know how this might expose your company to a loss? Why is CAPI 1.0 being retired? Is the architecture of the new Open Cryptographic API for Windows (CNG, Cryptography Next Generation) any better than CAPI 2? What is Suite-B? Do you realize that the next...

Windows Vista is a substantial advance in Windows, with significant innovations in the developer platform. The session will walk through "why" developers will consider to upgrade their application and the next two sessions will provide an overview of how to upgrade your applications to take advantage...

In this session, we will discuss many of the innovative design philosophies and development strategies involved in making Windows Vista the most secure Windows operating system to date. We will also look at the Reliability features in Windows Vista, we will start with how end users define reliability...

The increasing sophistication or "intelligence" of software will dramatically impact business, science, medicine, the media, politics and ultimately people and society. Today’s challenges - security, compliance, or just keeping machines up and running – prevent organisations from fully benefiting from...

For most of the history of computing, operating systems have lived in their own little bubbles of trust. Every part of an operating system pretty much assumed that every other part was exactly what it claimed to be and performed only what it claimed it could do. Recent attacks, though, have shown that...

Join Bob Kelly as he discusses the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Microsoft's long term strategy that couples a model-driven approach with a complete, integrated set of technology solutions to enable IT to manage complexity and achieve agility. Kelly also outlines Microsoft's comprehensive set of...

In this presentation, we discuss the 2005 architecture in detail and compare it with the 2000 architecture. The topics covered include client APIs, wire protocols, storage engine, memory management, job coordinator, transactions, query execution engine, relational database interface and security. ...

This session includes live demonstrations of the tools and templates supplied with the Windows Vista Security Guide. Topics for this session include: development process for the guide; definition of security levels and target organizations; considerations to make before deploying security settings; specific...

This session will cover how Windows is better protected against malware attacks, better at removing infections, and better at limiting potential harm from malicious software. The main focus will be on our anti-malware technologies found in Windows Vista including an architecture overview of Windows Defender...

While the industry has collectively made progress in responding to evolving security threats, there is still much to be done to establish trust in computing. Ben Fathi, outlines Microsoft's strategy in shaping a future that realizes the full potential of the interconnected world, as well as, detail progress...

With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivers a more secure and manageable wireless platform. This session discusses the Vista wireless networking experience for IT pros as well as important improvements in security, manageability, extensibility and diagnostics. Vista takes the next step in wireless security...

This session introduces the BitLocker feature, along with usage and recovery scenarios. It also provides a detailed look at how BitLocker works and includes the details that you need to build PC client systems that can support BitLocker and take advantage of the associated native operating system support...

This session introduces several of the new security architecture components and technologies in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn. Covered topics include enhancements to Credential Providers for logon and authentication, key service providers for the next-generation cryptographic architecture...

This session highlights the advantages of using Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 Active Directory for web proxy scenarios. Using AD for network security provides another layer of protection against internal clients transmitting sensitive data and intellectual property to external...

In this session we'll cover how to identify threats and vulnerabilities posed by an application's design, and how to document mitigations to these vulnerabilities, including the actual "code" for these mitigation techniques.

In this session we'll look at the pieces that are needed to build a resilient infrastructure based on Windows Server 2003, and then look at how to secure the infrastructure with ISA Server 2004; how to monitor events with MOM 2005; and finally, managing change and configuration management with SMS 2003...

Got any unmanaged? or, worse, rogue? machines on your network? Of course you do, unless you've consciously built the right technologies into your network to reduce and perhaps even eliminate them. http://www.microsoft.com/australia/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=115

Identity Management is becoming ever more important to businesses, whose technical staff need to understand how these solutions work and how to implement them. In this session we'll show how to build these solutions from start to finish. http://www.microsoft.com/australia/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid...

In this session we'll demonstrate strategic security principals via the process of threat modeling. Discover how threat models gives developers and architects an advantage over hackers by enabling them to document and mitigate against threats and vulnerabilities. http://www.microsoft.com/australia...

In this session we'll reveal how tools can take us further down the track to building more secure and reliable applications. This session will highlight reliability and security features in Visual Studio Team System and show how some hacks could have been prevented. http://www.microsoft.com/australia...